The important thing about the highway is that it is infrastructure for the whole Queensland community, not just local users.

“We as a community end up better off because of the infrastructure we have,” he said.

“A bucket-load of taxpayers’ money has been spent, but motorists are still driving on a dangerous side-track waiting for the job to be finished.”

Launching his petition, Mr Seeney said it called for the Bligh government to produce the 20-year Queensland infrastructure plan they promised in May last year “and to ensure it included a detailed plan to fix the Bruce Highway.

“We need action and we need to highlight the absolute failure of the government to push for improvements to our most important road. We also need to see a plan that’s going to fix problems along the Bruce Highway within 10 years.

“This (petition) is about ordinary Queenslanders taking direct action and telling parliament that they are sick and tired of nothing being done to fix this dangerous and deadly highway,” he said.

“This is about putting people-power pressure on the government to stop the spin, stop all the nonsense and produce a proper plan to upgrade the Bruce Highway.

“Countless state and federal infrastructure reports have highlighted how bad this highway is and the latest RACQ road safety report confirms it,” he said.